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According to PRNewswire, Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee stated that since the US-Iran conflict, ETH has outperformed the S&P 500 Index by 1,696 basis points, becoming the best-performing single asset globally, aside from crude oil, and has acquired the attributes of a "wartime store of value" asset.Tom Lee added that as Wall Street accelerates the promotion of on-chain tokenization and the demand for public, neutral blockchains from the Agentic AI system continues, Ethereum will continue to benefit. His basic expectation is that we are currently in the final stage of a "mini crypto winter."

OKX will officially launch the USAR/USDT perpetual contract on April 27, 2026, at 22:00. The COST/USDT contract will open at 22:15, the LLY/USDT contract will open at 22:30, the HIMS/USDT contract will open at 22:45, and the BMNR/USDT contract will open at 23:00. All contracts are settled in USDT, and trading hours are 7×24 hours.

According to on-chain monitoring data, Gate's hot wallet transferred out 299.999726 PAXG (approximately $1.4092 million). The PAXG market shows a current price of about $4690.54, with a market capitalization of approximately $2.26 billion.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted on the X platform that Binance attracted a total of $6 billion in stablecoin inflows in March and April, with nearly $3.5 billion in net inflows in April, contrasting sharply with the previous net outflow of about $7.6 billion.Despite the escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran increasing market uncertainty and concerns about rising inflation being unfavorable for risk assets, the trend of stablecoin inflows has clearly shifted. The analyst pointed out that when inflows to major exchanges exceed outflows, it indicates that some parts of the market are beginning to reposition themselves to participate in the gradual recovery over the past two months. If this trend continues, it may provide support for a short-term positive market.

According to Jinshi reports, Danske Bank analyst Asger Wilhelm Dalsjo stated in a report that as the Middle East conflict enters its ninth week, central banks will assess its current impact and future expectations. This week, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Canada, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the European Central Bank will hold policy meetings. The analyst said, "This week, monetary policy decisions will become the main driving force for the market." It is expected that the aforementioned five central banks will keep interest rates unchanged, but their assessments of the economic impact of the Middle East conflict will be closely monitored.

According to a report by Bitcoin Suisse, Hyperliquid recorded an annual revenue of $820 million in the past year, ranking fourth in global perpetual contract trading volume, becoming one of the few decentralized platforms that can compete with centralized exchanges. In the field of decentralized perpetual contracts, Hyperliquid held a 41% share of open interest and over 30% of total trading volume in 2025.Additionally, the platform launched over 120 new markets linked to RWA in less than six months, covering off-chain instruments such as tokenized stocks and commodities, averaging about five new markets launched each week. Bitcoin Suisse pointed out that Hyperliquid's order book design and native blockchain architecture are its key differentiating advantages, and the introduction of HyperEVM along with a capital-efficient trading mechanism will support its further expansion, setting a new benchmark for decentralized trading platforms.

International gold and silver prices are fluctuating at high levels. According to data from the Gate platform, the current price of gold (XAU) is $4,724.38; the current price of silver (XAG) is $76.47. Despite signs of a temporary easing in the international situation, market risk aversion remains strong, driving active trading and positions in related contracts.According to CoinGlass data, the 24-hour trading volume of Gate XAU contracts reached $41.85 million, an increase of 745.48% compared to the previous period, with a position size of $18.87 million, ranking first in the industry; the 24-hour trading volume of Gate XAG contracts reached $31.89 million, a significant increase of 3429.96%, with a position size of $16.51 million, also ranking among the top in the network. In the context of high-level fluctuations, Gate's trading activity has rapidly increased.Gate has pioneered the metal contract trading sector, providing 24/7 uninterrupted trading, offering users greater strategic flexibility and asset management efficiency in volatile markets. Gate contracts cover various traditional financial assets, including stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities, supporting trading in core targets such as gold, silver, and globally popular stocks. Gate continues to build a more efficient and professional multi-asset one-stop trading platform for global users.

Blockchain Capital partner Spencer Bogart posted on X platform that the total transaction volume of Kalshi and Polymarket is nearly equal, both around $12 billion (the former at $12.29 billion and the latter at $12.22 billion). Excluding sports-related transactions, Polymarket's non-sports category transaction volume is $7.5 billion, while Kalshi is only $1.6 billion.Despite the positioning differences between the two in the prediction market, it is strange that they are still classified in the same category.

The Humanity Foundation recently requested early investors to make a binary decision regarding the ownership plan for the $H token. On-chain monitoring data shows that the well-known market maker Jump Trading's associated address transferred 50 million $H to a centralized exchange on April 26, just before the deadline for investor responses.Further on-chain records indicate that Jump Trading began transferring $H tokens in batches starting from December 2025, with a cumulative processing scale measured in hundreds of millions. Trix Ventures subsequently released an on-chain analysis report, indicating that Jump Trading's actions, combined with the foundation's enforced binary decision plan, may trigger market participants to price in the unlocking event on June 25 in advance.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has increased by 5.4% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at $32.772 billion. Among them, Binance's open interest is $7.017 billion, OKX's open interest is $1.871 billion, Bybit's open interest is $2.19 billion, and Gate's open interest is $4.223 billion.

Litecoin disclosed in a post on platform X that a recent zero-day vulnerability had caused a DoS attack, affecting the operation of major mining pools. Mining nodes that were not updated allowed an invalid MWEB (MimbleWimble Extension Block) transaction to be executed, enabling the related tokens to be withdrawn to a third-party DEX.The Litecoin network rolled back these invalid transactions through a reorganization (reorg) of 13 blocks, confirming that they would not be included in the main chain. All valid transactions during this period were unaffected, and the vulnerability has been completely fixed, with network operations restored to normal.

According to official news, the USDD 2.0 supply mining phase 17 has now launched on the JustLend DAO platform.This event starts on April 25, 2026, at 20:00 (Singapore time) and ends on May 23, 2026, at 19:59:59 (Singapore time), with a dynamically adjusted annualized yield of approximately 4.25%. Rewards will be distributed weekly in the form of USDD. Users can participate in mining by depositing USDD. We welcome all users to actively participate, continuously earn returns, and easily achieve asset appreciation.

The newly appointed chief economist of New Fire Group, Fu Peng, stated on Twitter that the underlying business model of Bitcoin perpetual contracts is essentially the same as the "rollover fee/overnight fee" in traditional finance's gold and industrial commodity spot exchanges.Fu Peng pointed out that back in the day, gold exchanges settled through daily forced liquidation, with longs and shorts paying each other rollover fees. When retail investors held a large number of high-leverage long positions, the rollover fee became the most stable and hidden source of income for the platform. Nowadays, Bitcoin spot platforms mainly rely on perpetual contracts, with both sides settling the funding rate every 8 hours. When longs dominate, retail investors holding long positions continuously pay funding rates to shorts.Although the platform does not directly collect this fee, it significantly enhances trading activity, open interest, and liquidity, indirectly generating a large amount of fee income and forming a stable and substantial cash flow. Essentially, it is a business model where large players/institutions "collect rent" from long-term holdings, retail investors pay for leverage to go long, and the platform indirectly takes a cut.

According to market news, SpaceX is expected to go public in June, potentially surpassing Saudi Aramco's $29 billion fundraising record to become the largest IPO in history. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic also plan to go public in the second half of this year, with the three companies expected to collectively attract over $240 billion in funding, likely marking a significant turning point for liquidity changes in the cryptocurrency market.Market analysis suggests that these super IPOs may significantly withdraw liquidity from risk assets, while the cryptocurrency market is in the same pool of funds. As mainstream cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have been highly correlated with Nasdaq and U.S. stock market risk appetite in recent years, a large amount of capital shifting towards subscribing to tech giants' IPOs may weaken the buying support for BTC, ETH, and altcoins.

Binance contracts will automatically liquidate the VINEUSDT and AIUSDT U-based perpetual contracts on April 28, 2026, at 18:00, and the aforementioned perpetual contract trading pairs will be delisted after the liquidation is completed. Starting from April 28, 2026, at 17:30, users will not be able to open non-reducing positions in the aforementioned perpetual contracts.

According to Artemis data, Ethereum generated $2.7 million in fees in 24 hours, leading Hyperliquid's $1.7 million.

BIT tweeted that in the past two issues of the "Biton Target" report, we hinted that the bear market phase of Bitcoin may be nearing its end. Signals from multiple time dimensions are gradually forming resonance, supporting this judgment. When this judgment was made, Bitcoin was approaching the downward trend line formed since the bear market began in October 2025, just one step away from breaking upwards. Meanwhile, the weekly stochastic oscillator has fallen to a low not seen since January 2023, which was near the phase bottom after the end of the 2021/2022 bear market. Historically, this indicator reading often corresponds to market bottom areas.Our Bitcoin trend model has turned bullish. Trend signals do not always materialize, but considering that Bitcoin itself has strong trends and high volatility characteristics, after the previous two signals reversed quickly, the current round of movement has better conditions for continuation. Additionally, Bitcoin's price is gradually approaching the 21-week moving average, which has a critical boundary significance in our bull-bear judgment framework.$73,000 has always been an important watershed since March 2024 and is a key threshold for confirming whether this trend can reverse. Recently, Bitcoin has been fluctuating around $70,000. If it can effectively break through and stabilize above $73,000, the reversal signal will be further confirmed. Currently, various indicators are overall positive, but before the price enters this round's target range, the upward pace may still be disturbed by phase risk factors, so attention should be maintained.